Henny Porten

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Henny Porten
Born	Frieda Ulricke Porten (1890-01-07)7 January 1890 Magdeburg, Germany
Died	15 October 1960(1960-10-15) (aged 70) Berlin, Germany
Occupation	Actress, film producer
Years active	1906–1955

Frieda Ulricke "Henny" Porten (7 January 1890 – 15 October 1960) was a German actress and film producer of the silent era. She appeared in more than 170 films between 1906 and 1955.

She was one of the few German actress of the era to enter film without having stage experiences.^[1] Many of her earlier films were directed by her husband Kurt Stark, who died on the Western Front in 1916.^[1]

In 1921, she remarried, to Wilheim von Kaufmann.^[2] When the Nazis took power and she refused to divorce her Jewish husband, she found that her career, while doing twelve films a year, dissolved immediately.^[3] When she resolved on emigration, she was denied an exit visa to prevent a negative impression.^[3] She made ten films during the Nazi era. Her placid and reassuring persona helped calm audiences confronted with Allied bombardment.^[3] In 1944, after an aerial mine destroyed her home, she and her husband were out on the streets, as it was forbidden to shelter a full Jew.^[3]

She starred in the 1924 film Gräfin Donelli, which was directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.^[4]

Selected filmography [edit]

• The Robber Bride (1916)
• The Queen's Love Letter (1916)
• The Wandering Light (1916)
• Imprisoned Soul (1917)
• The Princess of Neutralia (1917)
• The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach (1917)
• Countess Kitchenmaid (1918)
• The Homecoming of Odysseus (1918)
• Her Sport (1919)
• Anna Boleyn (1920)
• The Vulture Wally (1921)
• The Ancient Law (1923)
• I.N.R.I. (1923)
• The Merchant of Venice (1923)
• Gräfin Donelli (1924)
• Skandal um Eva (1930)
• The Comedians (1941)
• Absender unbekannt (1950)
• Carola Lamberti - Eine vom Zirkus (1954)
• Das Fräulein von Scuderi (1955)

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• Henny Porten at the Internet Movie Database
• Henny Porten at Find a Grave